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①I read my second English book ——How to Live on Twenty-four Hours A Day，which is a book of Arnold Bennett, published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research in January 1, 2010, wrote this book in 1908.This book was written by Arnold Bennett who is a man of high self-discipline from English. He is best known as a novelist and also a playwright, essayist, critic and journalist. By any standards, his output was prolific: thirty novels, almost three thousand articles, ten plays and many other writings. One of his masterpieces is The Old Wives’ Tale, which once selected as one of the top 100 English novels of the 20th century. ②How to Live on 24 Hours a day, written by Arnold Bennett, is part of a larger work entitled How to Live. In this volume, he offers practical advice on how one might live within the confines of 24 hours a day. “ Existing ”is different from “living”.People’s daily existence consisted of repeated process every day. In fact, they were not really living. Bennett addressed this problem by urging these people to seize their extra time, and make the most of it to improve themselves. He prescribed improvement measures such as reading great literature, taking, an interest in the arts, reflecting on life, and learning self-discipline. ③This book introduces a quantity of methods of time management, which is useful for many readers for its accessible concise language and his good sense of time management. The author is aimed at sharing effective approaches with readers. He expounds the importance of time management and some practical time utilization schemes. It needs to be reminded that its purpose obviously does not include teaching people to strive for time to earn more economic benefits, but just teaching people how to get a fuller life with a sense of morality and mission.